# Creighton Higgins

> Software Engineer at Jane Technologies, Inc.

Location: Santa Cruz, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/creighton

* Rails Stack: strong on platform/api, solid front-end development.
* Experience and interest in scalable architectures, TDD, Refactoring
* Deep experience building enterprise MVC frameworks and applications.
* Ruby/Rails/Sidekiq, HTML, CSS, JS, Typescript, React/Redux, SQL (MySQL, Postgresql), Perl, Git.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Jane Technologies, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Present | Santa Cruz, CA
• Fullstack development of marketplace, business administration, and retail fulfillment
applications.
• Rails 5, PostgreSQL, Sidekiq, React/Typescript (hooks, Redux), RSpec/Capybara,
Cypress

### Software Engineer @ Guideline Technologies
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Mateo, CA
• Projects included onboarding, document approval, contribution reports, plan configuration management, low-risk in-place refactors.
• Rails 4, MySQL, Sidekiq/Queuebus, React/Redux, Minitest/Capybara

### Senior Software Engineer @ Yuzu™
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View, CA
* Designed, implemented, tested, refactored, and maintained Rails services in a cloud-based distributed architecture serving to web and mobile apps.
* Ruby (2.x) / Rails (4.x), PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Oauth, Sidekiq, Puppet, Chef, Docker, AWS.

### Full Stack Rails Engineer @ Hoodline
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Back-end services, front-end UI, and third party integration.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Rent.com
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | remote
* Back-end engineering, development on “Oneweb” responsive UI.
* Full stack maintenance / feature parity of legacy Mason/mod_perl platform.
* Agile/Scrum, Perl, SQL, Moose/Catalyst, HTML/CSS/JavaScript.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Liquidation Services, Inc
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012
* Back-end engineering of Inventory and Auction Management System.
* Implemented Purchasing and Receiving System, integrating formal workflow into the purchasing process and warehouse ops procedures.
* Approval System for stakeholders featuring support for desktops and Blackberries.
* Refactored physical inventory tools to migrate from quarterly to continuous-cycle.
* End-to-end development of search application for cross-referenced searches and batch processing of LSI Product Database records.

### Web Developer @ DNC
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 | Washington, DC
* Collaborated with vendor to maintain hosted campaign tracking software.
* MoveableType administration and and plug-in development.
* Consulted with College Democrats on redesign of CollegeDems.org.

### Software Engineer @ Ticketmaster
Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 | West Hollywood, CA
* Back-end development in MVC architecture (Perl, MySQL, Oracle, Linux, Apache).
* Developed Wireless Alert Service with third-party SMS vendor.
* All-hands migration of the entire TM codebase to UTC.

### Software Engineer @ Major League Baseball Advanced Media
Jan 2003 – Jan 2005 | New York, NY
* Developed and maintained mod_perl CMS
* Developed and maintained Perl/Mason pages for cached and dynamic Gameday content
* Developed tools for media departments to interact with CMS

### Developer / Engineer @ Critical Path
Jan 1999 – Jan 2002 | San Francisco, CA
Web Producer
Perl Developer
QA Engineer

### Web Designer / Producer @ Flycast Communications
Jan 1999 – Jan 1999 | San Francisco, CA
Graphic Design/Production
Web Design/Production
Scripting/ColdFusion Development

### Web Designer / Producer @ 451 Media
Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 | Ventura, CA
Graphic Design and Production
Web Design and Production
Interactive Media Design and Production


## Education
### Philosophy in Religious Studies
UC Santa Barbara


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/creighton-higgins-427b491

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Last updated: 2026-04-10